No Toilets, No Nikah: Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind to Ulemas

No toilet, no nikah. Maulvis and muftis in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab have decided not to solemnise marriages in households where there are no toilets.

Maulana Mahmood A Madani, General Secretary of Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind said having a toilet has been made a mandatory condition for Muslim marriages in the three states and will be soon be applied in all other states in the country.

Madani, who is also a former Rajya Sabha MP, stated this during the inauguration of Assam Conference on Sanitation (ASCOSAN) 2017 conducted in Khanapara last week.

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